#Peter Dutton

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"Your Majesty, our Queen, of the many qualities Australians see in you, there is none stronger than the love you have for your husband, your King."

The Hon. Peter Dutton, Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and Leader of the Liberal Party during a speech at Australian Parliament House in Canberra, 21.10.2024

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[kim]

There are much less cruel, much less insulting ways to throw a dead cat. Just saying.

From now on, any time Dutton is at a public event and stops for a press conference, someone should definitely run and jump around the background with the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander flags.

Probably worth pointing out too: it was the previous Morrison government — the one in which Dutton was Home Affairs minister — that paid AU$20 million for the same flag that he now says he won't use. Maybe he's forgotten?

See also: National grid could be entirely powered by Peter Dutton's bullshit, CSIRO finds.

[junkyarddevil]

Wow. The opposition who said "hey don't vote 'Yes' in this referendum its too complex, we'll host another referendum when we're in power with better wording" have now abandoned that promise now that the referendum failed. Who could've seen this coming.

[dragonridingsorceress]

I don't often make memes, but I could see this one clearly in my head and it wouldn't let me go until I made it.

[yournewfriendshouse]

holy fucking shit

[shubblelive]

hi an australian politician said that if he had his way, every single person on a visa who attends a 'free palestine' protest would be deported. stay safe <3

[the-meaning-iz-42]

So in conclusion:

Peter Dutton has jumped from a non constitutionally enshrined voice as an alternative to the Voice, to just elect him as leader next election, because that apparently will work just as well

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[noddytheornithopod]

Peter Dutton just said pro-Palestinian protesters should be deported what the actual fuck??? Fascist cop gonna keep being a fascist cop.

[dialogue-queered]

Comment:

Australia’s centre-right parties have been in disarray since the May 2022 national elections. Sustained moves to the right on climate change, lgbtiq rights, and even integrity issues saw them lose seats, especially in urban areas, to greens, to centrist ‘teal’ independents as well as to the Australian Labor Party which formed a narrow majority government.

Now, after decades of also playing wedge politics with the minority rights of Australia’s indigenous peoples reflecting ahistorical, proto-racist views, these centre-right parties led by a notorious populist conservative, Peter Dutton, have doubled down on that stance to reject a proposed direct reference and formal advisory role for indigenous folk in Australia’s written constitution known as ‘the voice’. (https://dialogue-queered.tumblr.com/post/713901890333802496/all-australians-own-the-constitution-now-we-have.) It appears the Coalition parties think they can build a majority for resentment against indigenous peoples at the very time when national reconciliation is progressing.

This formal advisory role was proposed (alongside treaty and truth-telling means for reconciliation) by a congress of indigenous peoples in 2017 that culminated in the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’ ( https://dialogue-queered.tumblr.com/post/713851452727197696/view-the-statement-uluru-statement-from-the.)

Noel Pearson (referenced below) was a member of this indigenous peoples congress.

A referendum to amend the constitution is proposed for late 2023.

Extract 1: The Liberal party yesterday formally resolved to oppose the referendum for a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament, instead proposing symbolic constitutional recognition of Indigenous people along with local and regional voices set up by legislation. Symbolic constitutional recognition was rejected in the detailed consultation processes leading up to the Uluru statement from the heart, which called for a constitutionally enshrined voice.

On ABC’s AM program, Dutton claimed that the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was “on a path to dividing the country” and that the voice would disrupt the process of government.

Extract 2: State Liberal leaders have publicly opposed the federal party’s decision, and federal MP Bridget Archer admitted she had considered quitting the party, saying her colleagues hadn’t learned the lessons of mounting election losses.

Extract 3: “Dutton sees his own political future tied up with getting this referendum to fail. This is more about his calculations about Liberal versus Labor, rather than what’s good for the country,” Pearson told ABC radio on Thursday morning.“He doesn’t mind chucking Indigenous Australians and the future of the country under the bus so he can preserve his miserable political hide.”

Pearson, one of the architects of the Uluru statement, has for years attempted to convince conservatives of the merit of the voice concept. He was scathing of Dutton’s decision, calling it “very sad”. “I couldn’t sleep last night. I was troubled by dreams and the spectre of the Dutton Liberal party’s Judas betrayal of our country,” Pearson said.“They’ve had 11 years of power to work on a proper proposal for recognition and the decision they’ve taken yesterday is a very poor outcome … I see the leader of the Liberal party, Mr Dutton, as an undertaker preparing the grave to bury [the Uluru statement].”

Extract 4: Pearson said Dutton was on a “unity ticket” with One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and former prime minister Tony Abbott, who are both campaigning against the voice.“I believe that the Liberal party is greatly out of step with the sentiment of the Australian people on this issue, and we will succeed notwithstanding their very disappointing stance,” he said.“I am certain that every attempt to try and kill Uluru and bury it will not succeed. The Australian people will rise to the historic opportunity we have to achieve reconciliation at last.”

Pearson noted the former Coalition government did not secure constitutional recognition of Indigenous people over its decade in office, despite it being part of the party’s platform.

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opposition leader peter dutton -

"humans are naturally selfish and evil" factoid actually just statistical error. former united states president ronald w. reagan,

[yournewfriendshouse]

do you think peter dutton and anthony albanese have ever explored each other’s bodies?